Roelant Savery
(1576–1639) Flemish painter and printmaker (1576-1639)
Roelant Savery (1576–1639) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Roelant Savery belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.
Roelant Savery was born in Kortrijk and died in Utrecht. The teachers included Jacob Savery and Hans Bol. Wikidata associates Roelant Savery with Dutch Golden Age painting.
The best-known works include ‘The poet crowned by two apes at the feast of the animals’, ‘Elijah fed by the ravens’, ‘Landscape with ruins, cattle and deer’, and ‘The Dodo’. The works belong mainly to the genre still life. The catalogue has 132 works by Roelant Savery with free images. The dated works span the years 1600–1848. Works by Roelant Savery are held by several collections, among them Kunsthistorisches Museum, Museet för sköna konster, Budapest, Centraal Museum, and Rijksmuseum. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Baroque’.
Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Tommaso Salini, Isaak van den Blocke, Lionello Spada, David Vinckboons, and Stefano Maderno.